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Unread 06-28-2025, 12:12 PM   #1
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From the July 1882 Parker Bros. catalog.

Quality U is a Grade 0 Twist Barrels 12-gauge with a straight grip. List Price $50
Quality T is a Grade 0 Twist Barrels 12-gauge with a pistol grip. List Price $55
Quality S is a Grade 0 Twist Barrels 10-gauge with a straight grip. List Price $55
Quality R is a Grade 0 Twist Barrels 10-gauge with a pistol grip. List Price $60

Quality Q is a Grade 1 English Twist Barrels 12-gauge with a straight grip. List Price $60
Quality P is a Grade 1 English Twist Barrels 12-gauge with a pistol grip. List Price $65
Quality O is a Grade 1 English Twist Barrels 10-gauge with a straight grip. List Price $65
Quality N is a Grade 1 English Twist Barrels 10-gauge with a pistol grip. List Price $70

Quality M is a Grade 1 Laminated Barrels 12-gauge with a straight grip. List Price $65
Quality L is a Grade 1 Laminated Barrels 12-gauge with a pistol grip. List Price $70
Quality K is a Grade 1 Laminated Barrels 10-gauge with a straight grip. List Price $70
Quality I is a Grade 1 Laminated Barrels 10-gauge with a pistol grip. List Price $75

In that I've never seen a Parker Bros. rib marked "English Twist" but have seen barrels marked "Twist" --

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and "Stub Twist" --

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How does this equate to Grade 0 and Grade 1?
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Not confused anymore Researcher, thank you so much!

Quality U is it.

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Looking at the Quality PH and NH hammerless guns, the catalogs state "Fine English Twist" --

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but the ribs are marked "TWIST" --

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As are mine. So...a $50 gun in 1882 would be what in 1887...$55? A comperable Elsie would be something like $35-40 then?
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The List Prices stayed pretty steady through the heydays of the Parker Gun. The Quality U still had a List Price of $50 in the 1900 Blue Ink catalog. A few years later they dropped the List Price of those old obsolete hammer guns. Prices really started going up with the inflation leading into and through WW-I.
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